Frances Dee
Acting
Biography
Frances Marion Dee (November 26, 1909 – March 6, 2004) was an American screen and television actress. She starred opposite Maurice Chevalier in the early talkie musical Playboy of Paris (1930). She starred in the film An American Tragedy (1931) in a role later recreated by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1951 re-titled remake A Place in the Sun. She also had a prominent role in the classic 1943 Val Lewton psychological horror film I Walked With a Zombie. Dee was the wife of Hollywood star Joel McCrea.
Born: November 26, 1909
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For
A Man from Wyoming
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Follow Thru
Lora Moore, the club champion, loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend, Jack Martin, show up. Lora takes him on as her golf teacher to work on her putt. She falls for him, but so do several other women. Meanwhile Angie Howard, Lora's friend, chases after Jack. A lot of silliness ensues.
The Silver Cord
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
Blood Money
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
Playboy of Paris
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
The Night of June 13
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
True to the Navy
Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors stopping by. Things get a little zany when she sets her eyes on Bull's Eye McCoy a gunner who refuses to settle down.
If I Were King
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Mister Scoutmaster
Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
Filmography
as Self - Interviewee
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Em MacWade
as Helen Jordan
as Susan Arnold
as Mrs. Doris Linaker
as Eileen Benson
as Fay Hollister
as Marie de Varenne
as Lynn Andrews
as Agnes Marsh
as Betsy Connell
as Candace "Candy" Goodwin
as Self (uncredited)
as Sabra Cameron
as Marie Steiner
as Nancy Bliss
as Katherine de Vaucelles
as Justine Pryor
as Margaret Tarryton
as Allison Lang
as Mirabel
as Amelia Sedley
as Sally Athelny
as Virginia Radcliffe
as Joyce 'Joy' Stanhope
as Marjorie Deane
as Meg
as Elaine Talbart
as Joan Stockton
as Jane Mallory
as Hester
as Ann Rogers
as Doris Brandt
as Self
as Mary Wallace (uncredited)
as Ginger Blake
as Mary Wodehouse
as Nancy Deane
as Lois Ingals
as Louise Adams
as Jerry Girard
as Ann Trumbull
as Sondra Finchley
as Kate Winslow
as Edna Baker
as Elinor
as Yvonne Philibert
as Woman in Ladies' Locker Room (uncredited)
as Receptionist (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Girl at Table (uncredited)
as Co-Ed (uncredited)